Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering

Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by tengbretson on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @10:41AM (#27130882)

We're just one more concession away from getting the performance we had 20 years ago with native applications.

Edit:

The path we're on just seems so obvious I kind of just want to skip ahead and get it over with.

- Developers and content publishers love the ergonomics and control of just shipping WASM binaries that paint to a canvas and it becomes the de facto standard.

- After 2-3 years of everyone's computer being used to surreptitiously mine crypto everywhere they go we re-learn the lessons of Java applets.

- In comes browsers that require signed WASM binaries for your protection.

The world is an app store. Curtains.

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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by goalieca on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @10:48AM (#27130962)

Careful here, these are more like thin clients with high network latencies.

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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by EvanAnderson on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @10:57AM (#27131089)

There's local processing and peripherals. I think you're looking for the term "smart terminals". Something like these for the "modern era": https://www.curiousmarc.com/computing/hp-264x-terminals

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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by tshaddox on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @11:56AM (#27131796)

Browsers still support arcane HMTL features from decades ago (and thus can display most web sites from decades ago). Other than things that were already decidedly not part of web standards (like Flash), I’m aware of very little if any backwards-incompatible changes made by popular browsers. So I'm having trouble seeing this slippery slope you’re describing.

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Re:Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by sgt on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:02PM (#27131846)

Funny. And then at some point someone will rediscover native apps.

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